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"This quietly engaging and eloquent book challenges dominant conceptions about collectability by analyzing the collecting of material things whose immateriality, ephemerality, and presumable undesirability would seem to deter if not defy the very act of collecting. [...] Those appreciative of Austrian and Swiss literature along with scholars interested in material culture, collecting, and nonfunctional or ""marginal"" objects will likely be most attracted to Frederick's book. * Goethe Yearbook *"

This quietly engaging and eloquent book challenges dominant conceptions about collectability by analyzing the collecting of material things whose immateriality, ephemerality, and presumable undesirability would seem to deter if not defy the very act of collecting. [...] Those appreciative of Austrian and Swiss literature along with scholars interested in material culture, collecting, and nonfunctional or ""marginal"" objects will likely be most attracted to Frederick's book. * Goethe Yearbook * Frederick's second book presents a carefully arranged and brilliantly written collection of case studies, encompassing the works of canonical authors of German Realism (Adalbert Stifter, Jeramias Gotthelf, Gottfried Keller) as well as a fairly diverse set of 20th century writers and one filmmaker (Oskar Fischinger, Max Frisch, Friedrich Glauser). * The German Quarterly *

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Samuel Frederick is Associate Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Narratives Unsettled and the coeditor of Robert Walser and Information, a volume of keywords.

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